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The Official Website of Colonel Allen WestFri, 09 Dec 2016 02:32:36 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1Veterans make HORRIBLE discovery outside their business on Pearl Harbor Dayhttp://www.allenbwest.com/michaelcantrell/veterans-make-horrible-discovery-outside-business-pearl-harbor-day
http://www.allenbwest.com/michaelcantrell/veterans-make-horrible-discovery-outside-business-pearl-harbor-day#respondThu, 08 Dec 2016 22:32:53 +0000http://www.allenbwest.com/?p=23777Wednesday was the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, a day that was filled with unspeakable horror, death, destruction, and marked our entrance into World War II, where our nation helped prevent one of the worst tyrants in human history from taking over the world.

Such a day should be one of pride in country, a time set aside to remember the lives lost that day and to honor the sacrifice of the men and women who served.

Unfortunately, not everyone supports their home country and the wonderful people who give of themselves to preserve our freedom and way of life — a fact two veterans discovered after finding something horrible outside their places of business.

TheBlaze is reporting, Two Bakersfield, California, gym owners were shocked to find that a pair of American flags they hung outside of their businesses were burned and destroyed by vandals. The disturbing act was committed on the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, and worse still, the gym owners are both military veterans.

Neal Lyday posted pictures of the aftermath on Facebook:

More from Bakersfield Now:

[Lyday’s business neighbor Dicky] Mulyana said it must have happened overnight between when he left at 8:30 and when he got back at 4:30 Wednesday morning.

And it wasn’t just his flag. In the same complex on Downing Avenue and Alken Street, the flag outside Neal Lyday’s gym was also burned

Look, if an individual wants to burn their own flag as a form of protest against a policy position, that’s one thing. Destroying someone else’s property, however, is absolutely deplorable, disgusting, and illegal.

You aren’t protesting by ruining someone else’s flag. You’re committing a crime, and as such, the individual responsible should be punished accordingly. If they’re ever caught that is.

The immorality of the left knows no bounds.

[This article was written by Michael Cantrell]
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http://www.allenbwest.com/michaelcantrell/veterans-make-horrible-discovery-outside-business-pearl-harbor-day/feed0YIKES: Here’s who the betting odds say will be Trump’s secretary of statehttp://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/yikes-heres-betting-odds-say-will-trumps-secretary-state
http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/yikes-heres-betting-odds-say-will-trumps-secretary-state#respondThu, 08 Dec 2016 21:57:23 +0000http://www.allenbwest.com/?p=23778Who Donald Trump will pick for secretary of state is anyone’s guess – and it’s anyone’s bet too.

Among the names that have been floated include former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former ambassador to China Jon Huntsman, retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, retired Navy Adm. James Stavridis, GOP Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California, and former Massachusetts Gov. and Republican nominee Mitt Romney. Trump’s meetings with Romney appear to be garnering the most media attention, as it’s unexpected given what the two had to say about each other during Trump’s campaign.

So what are those who are willing to put their money where their mouths are saying?

That’s down from 44 percent as recently as Nov. 29, but Romney’s odds have risen in recent days.

Behind Romney is Rudy Giuliani (15 percent), John Bolton and Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., (both at 10 percent). They give David Petraeus and Jon Huntsman only a 5 percent chance of being picked. The current secretary of state, John Kerry, only gets a 2 percent chance of still being in the job on Jan. 31.

Here’s the odds, visualized:

So it seems like Mitt Romney is the frontrunner, but who knows? On the day of the election, Trump had less than a 25 percent chance of winning the presidency based on the betting odds, and we all know how that turned out.

[Note: This post was authored by Matt Palumbo. Follow him on Twitter @MattPalumbo12]
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http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/yikes-heres-betting-odds-say-will-trumps-secretary-state/feed0House votes 326-96 to DEFY Obamahttp://www.allenbwest.com/michaelcantrell/house-approves-spending-bill-liberals-fuming
http://www.allenbwest.com/michaelcantrell/house-approves-spending-bill-liberals-fuming#respondThu, 08 Dec 2016 21:35:01 +0000http://www.allenbwest.com/?p=23774There’s nothing quite as satisfying as watching liberals lose their minds over the implementation of conservative values, which is why the whole last month has been like one big Christmas present, as not only has Trump’s big election win triggered these delicate snowflakes, so have many of his administration picks.

Like Gen. James Mattis being chosen to be the Secretary of Defense, a decision which no doubt sent lefties scurrying for their safe spaces, bawling all the way.

Mattis is hardcore to say the least, and aside from coming up with killer quotes that should be used in every action movie produced from this moment forward, he’s likely already got ISIS wetting themselves.

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In other words, he’s exactly the type of military leader we need right now. Which is precisely why House lawmakers have approved a bill to fast-track Mattis’ confirmation.

According to Free Beacon, The House passed the continuing spending resolution in a 326-96 vote on Thursday, moving the must-pass spending bill to the Senate just shy of the Friday midnight deadline to fund the government.

The legislation includes language that would set up expedited consideration of a waiver needed for Mattis to serve as defense secretary in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration. The draft of the continuing resolution, released by House Republicans on Tuesday evening, came amid warnings from Democrats not to include waiver language in the spending bill.

Mattis, a retired four-star Marine general who is widely respected among lawmakers and military officials, needs the congressional waiver to serve in Trump’s cabinet because he has not been separated from the military for seven years.

The continuing resolution approved by the House would fund the government through April 28 and give the Senate Armed Services committee five days to take up the waiver after it is introduced, after which it would go to the Senate floor. The language included in the continuing resolution also would cap Senate floor debate on the waiver at 10 hours.

The waiver would still need to pass the Senate by a 60-vote threshold in order for Mattis to advance to hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

If you listen closely you can hear the wails, cries, and screams of both radical jihadis and progressives across the world at the thought of an alpha male like Mad Dog Mattis leading the charge against our enemies.

Out of all of the fantastic picks Trump has made, this has to be one of the best and most exciting. For years now, we’ve watched Obama turn our nation into a cowardly laughing stock as we endure lone wolf attack after lone wolf attack, bowing down to our attackers and going out of our way to appease their religious beliefs.

It’s time for that to change, for us as a nation to get our spine back, and it looks like Trump and Mattis are going to do just that.

[This article was written by Michael Cantrell]
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http://www.allenbwest.com/michaelcantrell/house-approves-spending-bill-liberals-fuming/feed0Just in: Obama makes SHOCKING confession weeks before term ends…http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/just-obama-makes-shocking-confession-weeks-term-ends
http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/just-obama-makes-shocking-confession-weeks-term-ends#respondThu, 08 Dec 2016 21:15:25 +0000http://www.allenbwest.com/?p=23755What have the consequences been of eight years of a president whose idea of victory is withdrawl? The Taliban, which was more than decimated from 45,000 soldiers in 2001 to 11,000 when George W. Bush was leaving office has seen a resurgence, with 60,000 fighters among their ranks by 2014. Meanwhile, al-Qaida is far from vanquished.

In total, there are now nine times as many people killed globally in terror attacks (by all al-Qaida-affiliated terror groups) than in 2000.

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Then there’s ISIS – the new kids on the block whose brutality is so harsh that even al-Qaida disavowed them. When their presence became known, Obama famously referred to ISIS as al-Qaida’s “JV team,” downplaying their brutality. As they proceeded to conquer more territory in the Middle East than any other Islamist group, that description quickly proved itself inaccurate.

He hasn’t “degraded and defeated” ISIS as he promised, but he’s at least acknowledging he was wrong.

According to the Daily Caller, President Obama has admitted to underestimating the threat ISIS posed to the United States’ national security.
In an interview that will air in its entirety Wednesday evening, Obama talked to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria about his administration’s failure to deal with the ISIS threat. “The ability of ISIL to no just mass inside of Syria, but then to initiate major land offensives that took Mosul, for example, that was not on my intelligence radar screen,” POTUS admitted.

Obama also doubled-down on his belief that the United States should avoid sending ground troops into Syria, calling the avoidance of a “large scale ground conflict… the smartest decision from a menu of bad options.”

And after all that, he concluded with a particularly ridiculous comment, in his final foreign policy speech as president — Obama reiterated that “maintaining American troops at the time could not have reversed the forces that contributed to ISIL’s rise.”

So we’re supposed to believe it’s a mere coincidence that ISIS began conquering Iraq right as we withdrew?

[Note: This post was authored by Matt Palumbo. Follow him on Twitter @MattPalumbo12]
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http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/just-obama-makes-shocking-confession-weeks-term-ends/feed0In wake of OSU attack, Ohio Senate passes MASSIVE gun bill; liberals FREAKINGhttp://www.allenbwest.com/mlee/osu-attack-ohio-senate-passes-huge-gun-bill-liberals-freak
http://www.allenbwest.com/mlee/osu-attack-ohio-senate-passes-huge-gun-bill-liberals-freak#respondThu, 08 Dec 2016 20:20:33 +0000http://www.allenbwest.com/?p=23767It seems like every time there’s a tragedy in the news, politicians rush to take away more of our rights. Instead of blaming the individual who carried out a senseless act of violence, the instrument used in the attack shoulders the burden of blame. Rarely is it considered that having MORE freedom to defend oneself could actually be the solution to the problem.

That might soon change, at least if the Ohio Senate gets its way.

Just a few weeks ago, an ISIS-inspired Somali refugee went on a violent rampage across the campus of Ohio State University. Although the senseless act of violence was not carried out with a gun, liberals immediately started blaming lax gun laws for the attack.

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If the Ohio legislature was to follow liberal logic, they would swiftly move to place greater restrictions on cars and knives. However, Ohio politicians had a better idea… give people greater power to defend themselves. From Fox 19:

The Republican-dominated Ohio Senate approved sweeping NRA-backed gun control legislation Wednesday evening, which aims to curtail the list of spots where firearms are not allowed to be carried in the state.

House Bill 48 approves gun owners with concealed carry permits to carry firearms on school campuses that allow it, day cares, airport terminals and some government property.

The legislation sponsored by Rep. Ron Magg, R-Lebanon, was voted directly down party lines, 23-9. The bill heads to the Ohio House where it is expected to pass a final vote before hitting Gov. John Kasich’s desk.

In a rare appearance of logic in the face of tragedy, politicians in Ohio are starting to figure out the obvious… gun-free zones don’t work. After all, criminals aren’t really concerned about following the law anyway.

If it weren’t for the fortunate proximity of an Ohio State Campus Police officer, the rampage at Ohio State could have been much worse. Legislators in Ohio realize that the next time tragedy strikes, luck might not be on their side. That’s why empowering people to defend themselves is so critical.

Predictably, liberals everywhere are already freaking out about the bill. In their world, allowing law-abiding citizens to practice their Second Amendment rights is more dangerous than allowing criminals free rein in gun-free zones.

However, the sad truth is that if someone wants to bring a gun on campus, no sign telling them they can’t will deter them. That’s why passing legislation like this around the country is so important. Americans have a right to defend themselves.

[Note: This post was authored by Michael Lee. Follow him on Twitter @UAMichaelLee]
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http://www.allenbwest.com/mlee/osu-attack-ohio-senate-passes-huge-gun-bill-liberals-freak/feed0Karma: It just went from BAD to WORSE for Jill Stein…http://www.allenbwest.com/mlee/karma-jill-stein-just-got-bad-news
http://www.allenbwest.com/mlee/karma-jill-stein-just-got-bad-news#respondThu, 08 Dec 2016 20:02:33 +0000http://www.allenbwest.com/?p=23771From the beginning, Jill Stein’s recount effort in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin was a complete scam. Donald Trump won those states by more than enough votes to feel confident in the outcome. Not only that, the theory that there could have possibly been interference from Russian hackers in the process has been thoroughly debunked.

None of these facts mattered to Jill Stein, who initiated the recount process anyway. Never mind the fact that Stein didn’t come close enough to victory to even be in a position to call for recount; her crusade was about insuring the “integrity” of U.S. elections.

Of course, that wasn’t really Stein’s motive. What she really wanted was to raise money for herself, $12 million price tag to the taxypayers be damned. Unfortunately for the Green Party candidate, she may soon have to kiss a lot of that green goodbye.

The Michigan legislature is currently working on a bill that would change recount laws, and that’s bad news for Stein. From the Conservative Review:

Jill Stein, of course, does not expect to change the results of the election. She launched her laughable recount effort in a vainglorious attempt to raise money. As Conservative Review’s Rob Eno explained: “Stein did this to increase her donor file. Many politicians ‘buy’ their donor files from their campaigns. It is a valuable source of income for the candidate. In a report on Ben Carson’s donor list an expert told NBC News that each email address of an active donor is worth $5-$6 on the open rental market over a three year period. Stein is looking to cash in.”

Should Lisa Lyons’ bill pass in Michigan, it would be retroactive to Jan. 1, 2016, forcing Jill Stein to pay for her own demands. It would justifiably save the state’s taxpayers millions, and stick it to the Green Party con artist.

However, this isn’t the first dose of reality dished out to Stein this week. Trump has actually been gaining a small number of votes in the Wisconsin recount, and yesterday a federal judge put a halt to the recount procedure in Michigan. Sticking Stein with the bill she tried to stick to the taxpayers of Michigan would be a final piece of poetic justice.

It’s hard to have sympathy for someone who pulled a publicity stunt to enrich herself at the expense of others. However, maybe Stein will learn a valuable lesson from the entire ordeal. When you play silly games you win silly prizes.

[Note: This post was authored by Michael Lee. Follow him on Twitter @UAMichaelLee]
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http://www.allenbwest.com/mlee/karma-jill-stein-just-got-bad-news/feed0REVEALED: Obama trying to push through SECRET deal before Trump inaugurationhttp://www.allenbwest.com/analytical-economist/revealed-obama-trying-push-secret-deal-trump-inauguration
http://www.allenbwest.com/analytical-economist/revealed-obama-trying-push-secret-deal-trump-inauguration#respondThu, 08 Dec 2016 19:26:47 +0000http://www.allenbwest.com/?p=23746President Barack Obama has achieved his goal of resettling 10,000 refugees from Syria – and then some. Only 56 of the refugees brought in have been Christian — that’s a half a percent — despite 10 percent of Syria’s population being Christian. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to halt refugee resettlement from Syria, as he fears the threat of terrorists slipping through the cracks is far too high.

Meanwhile, Obama has been orchestrating a secret deal to bring in 2,500 more before Trump takes office.

The refugees in question have been rejected by Australia – and Obama has classified details on the refugees. Those refugees are from Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and are predominantly male. Sound suspicious? That’s because it is.

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As The Daily Caller reported: Senate and House Judiciary chairmen called on the White House Tuesday to declassify the details of a secret agreement to accept some 2,000 refugees currently held in off-shore detention camps by Australia. The vast majority of the refugees housed in these camps are from the Middle East and have so far been rejected for resettlement by Australia. The reasons behind their rejection have not been made public. The White House has agreed to resettle many of them in the U.S., but in an unprecedented move, has classified the details of the plan.

If the reasons they’ve been rejected aren’t being made public, is it much of a stretch to assume that it’s for a reason the American public wouldn’t be thrilled with?

Republicans Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Bob Goodlatte raised concerns about the classification of the details following news of the agreement in November, and said Congress should have been consulted about the agreement. They attended a close-door brief with White House officials on details of the deal, which they said has convinced them there is “absolutely … no reason” for the specifics of the plan to be kept a secret from the American public.

“It is now absolutely apparent to us that there was no reason for the agreement to be classified from the outset, and that it should not continue to be classified,” Grassley and Goodlatte wrote in a letter to the Department of Homeland Security. “To that end, we request that you declassify the document outlining the agreement so that the American people can read it.”

Grassley and Goodlatte say there’s no reason for the details to be kept a secret, but there’s likely a very good political reason why. The fact that Obama is doing this with less than two months left in his presidency, and the details are secretive should be a hint he’s up to something nobody would approve of.

[Note: This post was written by The Analytical Economist]
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http://www.allenbwest.com/analytical-economist/revealed-obama-trying-push-secret-deal-trump-inauguration/feed0Unbelievable: Obama now blames THIS for his failed legacy…http://www.allenbwest.com/mlee/unbelievable-obama-blames-failed-legacy
http://www.allenbwest.com/mlee/unbelievable-obama-blames-failed-legacy#respondThu, 08 Dec 2016 18:31:55 +0000http://www.allenbwest.com/?p=23757In the wake of the 2016 election, one thing has become perfectly clear about the Democratic Party; they have become an excuse factory. Instead of mastering the art of saving manufacturing jobs like President-elect Trump, they’ve mastered the art of manufacturing excuses.

Democrats will blame everything except themselves for their failures. When Hillary Clinton lost the election, she blamed Russian hackers and the FBI. The reality is that the people had grave concerns about the prospects of Hillary Clinton running the country. Voters chose Donald Trump because he offered solutions and ideas, not corruption and cronyism.

The election of Donald Trump also served as a repudiation of the Obama legacy. Hillary Clinton embraced President Obama’s policies, essentially running her election as being a third Obama term. Voters didn’t like that idea, choosing instead to change course. Put simply, Americans were sick of disastrous Obama policies and wanted something different.

Don’t expect Democrats to get the memo. In a recent interview, President Obama was given an opportunity to discuss his thoughts on his legacy. Instead of a moment of self-reflection, Obama decided to pass the blame once again. Was it his policies people were upset about? Of course not! It was racism that was to blame. From the Huffington Post:

”I think there’s a reason attitudes about my presidency among whites in northern states are very different from whites in southern states,” Obama told Zakaria.

Race has been a constant theme throughout the first African-American president’s two terms, from addressing the all-too-common fatal shootings of black youths by police to enduring unsubstantiated claims about his citizenship from the birther movement, which President-elect Donald Trump has largely led.

David Axelrod, former senior advisor to Obama, also appeared on the show and addressed the racial undercurrent plaguing his presidency.

“It’s indisputable that there was a ferocity to the opposition and a lack of respect to him that was a function of race,” he said.

Not only did he blame racism, he chose to do it in a way that insulted half of the country! Of course, there’s a reason attitudes in the north are different than attitudes in the south towards the Obama presidency, and it has nothing to do with race. The obvious reason for the difference in attitudes is simply that the south is a stronghold for the Republican Party. Believe it or not, Republicans tend to disagree with bad liberal policies!

As shocking as it may be to President Obama, people hated his POLICIES so much that Donald Trump managed to flip northern states that hadn’t gone red in almost 30 years! Did northern states like Michigan that voted for the first (half) black president twice suddenly become hot beds of racism? Of course not.

Democrats are no longer attempting to offer solutions that work for the American people. Instead of coming up with constructive ideas, they are making excuses and insulting people. It may make them feel better in the short run, but in the long run it’s not going to help them win any elections. The American voter is smarter than that.

[Note: This post was authored by Michael Lee. Follow him on Twitter @UAMichaelLee]
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http://www.allenbwest.com/mlee/unbelievable-obama-blames-failed-legacy/feed0CAIR leader meets 12-year-old girl, and THEN…http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/cair-leader-meets-12-year-old-girl
http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/cair-leader-meets-12-year-old-girl#respondThu, 08 Dec 2016 18:16:45 +0000http://www.allenbwest.com/?p=23763The Prophet Mohammad married a six-year-old girl, and consummated the marriage when she was nine, but one member of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) apparently didn’t get the memo that such behavior isn’t permitted in the Western world.

According to Front Page Mag, on the night of May 20, 2015, Ahmad Abrar Saleem was arrested in Clermont, Florida, a short distance from his Orlando home. He was charged with “use of computer to seduce/solicit/entice a child to commit sex act” and “travel to seduce, solicit, lure a child to commit sex act.”

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Saleem was intending to meet the twelve-year-old girl he had been chatting with online, but instead, Saleem met Sheriff’s deputies waiting for him and 21 others in a child sex sting operation. He was detained at 9:35 pm and booked at one-in-the-morning.

To give you more of a preview of the kind of guy Saleem is, in March 2015 he joined CAIR-Florida’s Communications Coordinator Ali Akin Kurnaz for a press conference to announce CAIR’s plan to initiate a $30 million lawsuit against the FBI over the death of Boston Marathon bomber associate, Ibragim Todashev. The Boston Bombing wasn’t the only crime of the Tsarnaev brothers, by the way. During questioning from the FBI, Todashev admitted to his and Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s involvement in a triple murder that took place in Waltham, Massachusetts on September 11, 2011, well over a year prior to the Boston bombing. The three victims, who were all Jewish, had their throats so violently slashed that they were nearly decapitated.

At the end of the two years, Saleem will be responsible for $36,500 in incarceration costs and another $1000 in fines and fees. Following his stay, he may have an issue finding a job as a ‘sexual offender.’ He probably will not be able to rely on his parents, as both their jobs deal with youth, his father being a pediatrician and his mother being a school teacher. And it is doubtful his Psychology degree from UCF will help, except to demonstrate that he was more suited as a patient than a student.

How much time until we’re told by CAIR that Muslims are the real victims here as a result of any “Islamophobia” that may result from the news breaking? We’ll be waiting…

[Note: This post was authored by Matt Palumbo. Follow him on Twitter @MattPalumbo12]
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Donald Trump’s deal with Carrier that saved over 1,000 manufacturing jobs in the U.S. may not be large in the grand scheme of things (considering we have a nearly $19 trillion economy), but it’s a preview of what’s to come. While Trump individually negotiated the Carrier deal, keep in mind he isn’t even president yet. He hasn’t been able to reform the tax code as a whole in a way to encourage jobs to return to the U.S. at a macro level.

But at least one business leader is planning on expanding following Trump’s victory. As CNBC reported: United States Steel would like to accelerate its investments and hire back laid-off employees now that Donald Trump will be occupying the Oval Office, CEO Mario Longhi told CNBC on Wednesday.

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“We already structured to do some things, but when you see in the near future improvement to the tax laws, improvements to regulation, those two things by themselves may be a significant driver to what we’re going to do,” he said in an interview with CNBC’s “Power Lunch.”

In addition, the belief that the U.S. economy can grow at least 3.5 percent also adds to what the company can do, Longhi noted. “I’d be more than happy to bring back the employees we’ve been forced to lay off during that depressive period,” he said, which “could be close to 10,000 jobs.”

In a statement to CNBC later, U.S. Steel clarified that Longhi was “referring to the American steel industry overall, not just to employees of United States Steel Corporation.”

The American steel industry has been on a decline for a while now, with employment in the sector falling by a third since 2000 (from 135,000 jobs to 87,000 by 2015). Another 4,000 jobs in the sector were lost in 2015. Lonhi says he could be bringing back as many as 10,000 jobs – an extremely large number of jobs relative to the size of the sector.

Tired of winning yet?

[Note: This post was authored by The Analytical Economist]
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http://www.allenbwest.com/analytical-economist/say-what-trump-does-it-again/feed0BREAKING: Trump Labor Secretary announced…http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/breaking-trump-labor-secretary-announced
http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/breaking-trump-labor-secretary-announced#respondThu, 08 Dec 2016 17:32:32 +0000http://www.allenbwest.com/?p=23761After picking former WWE CEO Linda McMahon to head the Small Business Administration last night, Donald Trump was expected to announce who will be heading his Labor Department today, and it’s another person behind a brand you’re likely familiar with.

Andrew F. Puzder, the CEO of CKE Restaurants (which operates the Carls Jr. and Hardees brands) is expected to be named nominee for secretary of that department today. If you don’t recognize him from the restaurants he owns and operates, you may have seen him on a number of television shows, including Neil Cavuto, The O’Reily Factor, Varney & Co., and a handful of financial shows. He also commonly publishes in center-right publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Real Clear Politics, the National Review, among others.

In case it wasn’t evident from his media appearances and choice of publications, Pruitt has a conservative leaning or two. As a businessman in the fast food business, he’s spoken ardently against the minimum wage… which isn’t resonating well with some leftists.

The New York Times writes that Mr. Puzder has spent his career in the private sector and has opposed efforts to expand eligibility for overtime pay, arguing that the minimum wage hurts small businesses and leads to job loss among low-skilled workers.

He strongly supports the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, which he maintains has helped create a “restaurant recession” because rising premiums have left middle- and working-class people with less money to spend dining out.

They then complain that Mr. Puzder will arguably have less experience in government than any labor secretary since the early 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan appointed a longtime construction executive named Raymond Donovan to head the department. Mr. Donovan’s tenure was marked by an easing of numerous regulations.

Actually having a businessman who knows the consequences of government interference in the economy firsthand as the Labor Secretary? Stop the presses!

[Note: This post was authored by Matt Palumbo. Follow him on Twitter @MattPalumbo12]
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http://www.allenbwest.com/matt-palumbo/breaking-trump-labor-secretary-announced/feed0BOOM: Obama just got an INTERNATIONAL one finger salutehttp://www.allenbwest.com/allen/boom-obama-just-got-international-one-finger-salute
http://www.allenbwest.com/allen/boom-obama-just-got-international-one-finger-salute#respondThu, 08 Dec 2016 17:08:56 +0000http://www.allenbwest.com/?p=23759Y’all remember when President Obama was over in Japan, badmouthing Donald Trump by saying world leaders were nervous about him becoming president? Yes, we wrote about that statement here on these pages. Our assessment was that it was Obama who was mostly nervous…and now we know why. And with that, the despots, dictators and theocrats who were nervous because their global security “gravy train” had the potential of ending — no more weak-kneed, compromising, appeasing foreign policy.

But there’s another second and third tier effect from the impending Trump presidency: our real allies, shunned by Obama, are suddenly emboldened.

As reported by World Israel News, “Washington expressed reservations about a proposed Israeli bill that would save thousands of Jewish homes in Judea and Samaria. The Obama administration on Monday stated its opposition to the Regulation Bill, saying it was “deeply concerned about it.”

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The Regulation Bill is a proposed law which legalizes Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria that were established with state involvement and possibly built on private land or land not owned by the state. The Obama administration is “very concerned about the advancement of this legislation that would allow for the legalization of Israeli outposts located in private Palestinian land,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. “

Enacting this law would be profoundly damaging to the prospects for a two-state solution,” he asserted, adding that Washington is “troubled” by comments made by political figures in Israel that the law “would be the first step in annexing parts of the West Bank.”

“And again, it all goes back to what Secretary Kerry was discussing at the Saban Forum the other day, which is the more you create the realities on the ground that would prohibit a two-state solution, then the harder it’s going to be to get to that two-state solution,” Toner said.

He reiterated Washington’ stance that the bill was “changing the reality on the ground, and we’re deeply concerned about it. We’re conveying those concerns. The legislation’s not yet passed into law. We hope that it does not become law, but we certainly hope that changes or modifications can be made to it.”

Let me explain something to Barack Obama and his menacing flying monkeys: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu does not care what you think about his domestic policy relating to his people. And let’s not forget, it was Obama who dispatched his minions to Israel to undermine Prime Minister Netanyahu’s reelection a few years back. It was the disrespectful Obama and his acolytes who shunned Netanyahu when he was invited to address a joint session of Congress on the folly of Obama’s Iranian agreement.

So, I would tend to believe that right now, PM Benjamin Netanyahu is giving Obama — and John Kerry — the international one finger love sign.

First of all, I’ve been to Israel and these are communities, suburbs, and the use of the language of “settlements” and “outposts” depicts the denigrating and condescending nature of the Obama administration towards Israel and Israeli citizens.

This whole concept of a two-state solution has no credibility as long as you have slick dressed terrorists like Abu Mazen aka Mahmoud Abbas at the head of the original Islamic terror group, Fatah.

There is no two-state solution when Fatah is naming streets and squares after jihadists who’ve killed Jewish citizens. It was Abbas who was encouraging the most recent spate of knife attacks and stabbings of Israelis — not exactly an offering of peace, if you ask me. And Obama’s SecState, John Kerry, continues to rail on Israel about being the main obstacle to peace in the Middle East.

For eight years, Netanyahu has had to endure this, and now he knows it’s only 43 days, 2 hours, 25 minutes, and 50 seconds — and you can bet he has a countdown clock as well, So, the Obama administration doth protest too much, and their outcry is falling upon deaf ears, as well as it should.

Under a Trump administration, Israel will be free to take a stand against the terrorist threats it faces. They will no longer have to be concerned about hellfire missile support being cut off. And you can bet Netanyahu will never have to exit the White House via the backdoor.

Secondly, it is time once again for another history lesson. There is no such thing as “Palestinian lands.” While we get rid of other ill-conceived language such as settlements and outposts…along with ISIL, we need to stop this revisionist propaganda.

Roman Emperor Hadrian first introduced the derivative of the word “palestine” into the region after crushing the Simon Bar Kokhba revolt, circa 132 AD, in the Roman province of…wait for it, Judea. The revolt lasted for some four years and history teaches us that one of the main drivers behind this action was the Roman building over the ruins of Jerusalem a new city, called Aeolia Capitolina, an affront. The Bar Kokhba revolt would become the last of the three Jewish insurrections and was the start of the Jewish diaspora as Jewish people sought to escape from the region. Why?

Emperor Hadrian sought to crush the Jewish people, and saw Judaism as the driving factor behind the insurrections. He therefore decreed, upon victory, that the land known as Judea would become Palaestinia. This reference was derived from the word Philistia named after the ancient Philistines who were descendants of Greeks. Over time the region would be referred to as Palestine, but it had nothing to do with Arab people. History, in fact, teaches us the introduction of the word Palaestinia was meant as punishment for the Jewish people…but those who fail to learn from history are doomed to fall for any propagandized crap.

Judea and Samaria belong to the Jewish people, and being such, they are free to build communities, neighborhoods, suburbs wherever they desire. And now, the Israelis realize that with the victory of Donald Trump on November 8th, they no longer have to live in fear of retribution from a despotic ruler named Barack Obama.

And honestly, they could care less what he or the Obama administration cronies think in these final days as he starts packing. Under the reign of Obama, Israel has seen an already insecure region become more dangerous for their survival, their existence. And anyone siding with Islamic terrorists and jihadists, along with the insidious BDS movement are indeed enemies of our best ally, the Jewish State of Israel. And if Rep. Keith Ellison does become the Chairman of the Democrat National Committee, that’s very telling of who the Democrats are.

That wonderful day when I was invited to speak out against the Iranian agreement in New York City’s Time Square before tens of thousands is a moment I will NEVER forget.

My support for Israel is not rooted in any political motivation. It’s all about being a little boy going to Sunday school class at Fort Street United Methodist Church on Boulevard Avenue in Atlanta, and learning about the Bible, starting at the Old Testament, and of Jesus.

My personal salvation is based on a Jewish carpenter from Galilee. America forever shall be my homeland, but Israel is my spiritual homeland. If there is no Israel, there is no Holy Land, there is no place to celebrate the birth of my Christian faith. And as a student of history, I despise those who pervert it for their wrongful gain. Israel now knows that it once again has a friend in America — that hasn’t been the case over the past eight years. And it was certainly not going to be any different with a Hillary Clinton presidency.

Perhaps things are looking up for America because of what it says in Genesis 12:3, (NIV), “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”